A new two way network data transfer rate record has been set, reaching speeds of 186 gigabits per second to help work through piles of data spewing out of the Large Hadron Collider.
Researchers at Caltech, University of Michigan, the God-particle botherers at CERN and others all teamed up to push the limits of the amount of information that can be transferred in a wide area network.
The computer scientists now reckon that extremely large quantities of information can be crammed down optical fibres and sent across the world from continent to continent. The speeds hit by the boffins is apparently equivalent to moving two million gigabytes per day.